New Book: Gregory Mackay's latest graphic novel Francis Bear
Those of you with a passion for indie graphic novels will be very happy to hear that Gregory Mackay has a new book out. Francis Bear follows the drunken misadventures of a nihilistic teddy bear who – despite his best intentions – never gets anything right. Only $17.50 RRP Read more
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Review: East meets West in Jiang Huan's haunting oils
“Temperature of Time” is Jiang Huan’s first solo show in New York, and it’s a fantastic city debut at the Eli Klein Art gallery in Soho. While his realism draws comparisons to artists such as Hans Holbein and Jan van Eyck, there is something endemically Eastern about his work, despite some very modern, Western, emotional and narrative complexities prevalent in the contemplative gazes of his young female subjects. Read more
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Opening This Week
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Pieter Hugo's Nollywood
IMA - Institute of Modern Art
South African photographer Pieter Hugo became intrigued by Nollywood’s fictional worlds, where the everyday and the unreal intertwine. He asked a team of actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets and photographed them. The resulting images recreate the stereotypical characters that typify Nollywood productions, including mummies, satanic demons, and zombies, all casually posed in the backlots of Enugu.
Warning: Adult content
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Gavin Brown - Grotto's Edge
Catherine Asquith Gallery
In his new work, Gavin Brown has created a mythical undersea arbour that is the domain of a rarified breed of exotic beings and non-beings strangely alien to each other yet belonging. Much of the detail is disguised as iridescent and surreal sea-bed formations that create a grotto-like landscape backdrop to more a recognisable subject matter that makes the work unmistakably Gavin Brown in style.
Melbourne, Australia
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Jo Darbyshire - Floating World
Catherine Asquith Gallery
The ethereal paintings of Jo Darbyshire aim to evoke the seduction and apprehension experienced when swimming, through water, or indeed, traversing one’s dreams. Her paintings suggest fluid worlds, exquisite realms that hover on the edge of familiar and safe, threatening and the unknown.
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Brook Andrew - Double Feature
IMA - Institute of Modern Art
Brook Andrew is of Wiradjuri and Scottish descent. While he is concerned not to be pigeonholed as an Aboriginal artist, his work centres on Aboriginal politics. Conflating contraries, it confounds clear political readings.
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2010 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
Monash Gallery of Art
Established in 2006 to promote excellence in photography, the annual non-acquisitive William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize is an initative of the MGA Foundation. It has quickly become Australia’s most important photogaphy prize.
Thursday 23 September 2010 to Sunday 24 October 2010
Melbourne, Australia
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Tender Cuts - Deborah Kelly
Gallery Barry Keldoulis
Kelly’s imagery mates & mutates ideas and pictorial elements salvaged (or savaged) from our collective visual vocabulary, unsettling both the biological and cultural imaginings of the Feminine. Exuberant iconoclasm arrests the spectator. These handmade collages in the Dada tradition confront new social realities.
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Philip Wolfhagen | A Painter's Landscape
Karen Woodbury Gallery
As one of Australia’s acclaimed landscape painters, Philip Wolfhagen continues to create deeply evocative, beautiful and soothing works. His much anticipated first solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery will be a strong representation of his current practice of superb traditional landscape painting.
Opening Wednesday 22 September 2010 6-8pm
Melbourne, Australia
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Phil Roubin: Left Behind
red gallery
A photographic exploration of life after inhabitation.
Melbourne, Australia
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Li Gang: in the grey scale
Monash Gallery of Art
Curated by the Australian artist Tony Trembath, Li Gang: in the grey scale surveys the recent photographic work of this Australian-trained Chinese artist. Li Gang is a graduate of Victorian College of the Arts.
Thursday 23 September 2010 to Sunday 28 November 2010
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Vern Sherman Drinks Tea and Other Tales - A solo show by I & The Others
Off the Kerb
‘Vern Sherman Drinks Tea and Other Tales’ is the second solo show for eclectic Melbourne artist I & The Others. Using a variety of media, I & The Others has created a series of works inspired by three and a half months in the United States in 2009.
Melbourne, Australia
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Christian Marclay - Looking for Love
IMA - Institute of Modern Art
Christian Marclay has long criss-crossed the art and experimental-music scenes. Back in the 1970s, the Swiss artist pioneered the use of turntables and records as musical instruments, operating independently of but parallel to hip hop.
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SUPERSTREAM - A night of French / Australian live cinema and sound
Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre
French live cinema collective SUPERFLUX team up with Melbourne AV collective STREAM for a night of collaborative performances.
Live Performance Saturday 25 September 2010 8pm-10pm
Melbourne, Australia
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Wolfgang Sievers exhibition
Kerry Packer Civic Gallery
Sievers’ photographs speak of the dignity of labour and the visual beauty of the constructed world. His Gears for mining industry (1967) is a classic image in Australian art history.
Saturday 25 September 2010 to Monday 11 October 2010
Adelaide, Australia
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Coming Up
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Love Sick
Stills Gallery
Love Sick consists of a group show at Stills Gallery (29 September – 6 November 2010) that features video art and photomedia, and four larger-than-life photographic works on the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Art Centre billboards (15 October 2010 – 29 January 2011).
Sydney, Australia
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Biik Land - Ochre stencil prints by Baluk Arts
Until Never
Biik Land is an exhibition of stencil works produced by Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Aboriginal artists over the last 6 months, in workshops facilitated by Andrew Mac of Citylights-Until Never and coordinated by Baluk Arts and Frankston Arts Centre.
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Julie: art and postnatal depression
Monash Gallery of Art
For Melbourne-based photographer KONRAD WINKLER this collaboration initially began as an exercise in documenting JULIE GOODWIN as an artist, at work in her home studio. But Julie could not bring herself to paint. Konrad encouraged Julie to keep a diary each day, noting and drawing her day-to-day experience. Over a number of years they worked together, exploring the experience of a mother with intense postnatal depression
Thursday 28 October 2010 to Sunday 05 December 2010
Melbourne, Australia
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Digital photography essentials with Tim Handfield
Monash Gallery of Art
Tim Handfield will present a step-by-step, basic to intermediate course designed to demystify digital photography and give you the essential concepts and techniques to take better digital photographs and to manage them through to superb digital prints. The techniques presented have been distilled from Tim’s 30 years as an art photographer and master printer, including 20 years working digitally.
Saturday 02 October 2010 to Saturday 23 October 2010
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Opportunities
International Interactivos?’10 Belo Horizonte: High End Low Tech Call for Projects
Australia First Draft Call for Proposals
Australia Metro Arts Call for Proposals
http://opps.artabase.net
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